Additional whistleblowers coming forward in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, suggesting the British data firm accused of harnessing the personal data from over 50 million Facebook users for the election was actually embedded in U.S. politics for quite some time.????According to the Washington Post, back in 2014 the company assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign advice to Republican candidates.????Three of the firm’s former employees revealing the foreigners were sent across several states to help Republicans figure out which voters to target in what was dubbed “Project Ripon.”????This, despite a lawyer warning the firm that foreign nationals can not “directly or indirectly participate in the decision-making process” of a political campaign????The news follows the stunning revelation from a former employee...

Cambridge Analytica wielded the data amassed from millions of Facebook users for the Trump campaign... to positively influence people’s perceptions of the then-candidate.????Following news of the scandal, a Reuters/Ipos poll has found fewer than half of all Americans trust Facebook to follow privacy laws.